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Sunday 22 November 2015

Do Made-up Characters really exist?

...or are they figments of your imagination?  Well of course they are.  But do figments of your imagination exist, in and of themselves, independently, once they have been released from your brain?  Do they shop in Aldi and worry about the gas bill?  Or do they move from your brain to mine, becoming figments of 'my' imagination, vile and dreadful thing that it is?
And where does the phrase 'figment of your imagination' come from?  Who 'coined it', to 'coin a phrase'?  Who coined the phrase, 'to coin a phrase', and should they be hunted down and destroyed before they do any more damage?